I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.